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On the other hand: with the digital edition, they are able to track _each_ and _every_ thing you do on their site, and sell that data to advertisers. Try doing that with the paper version.

I dunno, maybe our math is different, but how are you getting $1/month difference?

If they guaranteed an ad-free paper, and guaranteed that they would not share my info with anyone else, then the price would be more appealing.

But they don't.

Sorry to go off on a tangent, but: I would love to subscribe to NYT digital editions, but why must the digital edition cost almost as much as the paper edition? Imagine the waste involved (in energy and materials)! Current home delivery rates are $8.75 for paper, and $5.00 for internet. That is simply too much. Bring it down to $1/week and we'll talk.

FTA: "It's powered by a dual-core Quark SOC, runs Linux, and has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity"...

If it runs Linux, there's a good chance it's open (or could be made open).

Gen Clapper lied once[1] under direct questioning by a Senator who knew the answer already. What makes Sen Sanders think that they won't lie again?

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...

"Evil triumphs when good people do nothing"

On the surface, I welcome this editorial. About time.

But the NYT has deep connections to the USG, so I'm wondering where this editorial is coming from. It could be a trial balloon on the part of the administration to test the public's appetite for a reduced sentence for Snowden.

Bruichladdich(sp) Octomore is the smokiest in MHO. Ardbeg makes some fine smoky spirits too. Laphroig is close, but no cigar.

Yep. People are "shocked" at Manning's treatment, when Jose Padilla suffered something similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_%28prisoner%2...

Freezer? I've heard of HDDs that wouldn't spin up, were put in a freezer for 2 days and then spun up. They key is to copy the data off QUICKLY as it dies the moment warms up. So you can't go around doing a "grep -r -i bitcoin /" ...

But is it really a telephone? Could the purpose of these two gourds on a string have been something else? I'm not discounting the engineering prowess of the Chimu, but sometimes one has to be careful assigning modern-day interpretations to ancient artifacts.

How is this better than Leaf.ly, Stickyguide or Weedmaps ?

http://www.leafly.com/

http://www.stickyguide.com/

http://www.weedmaps.com/

It doesn't matter if you're a founder or a janitor; what matters is how many shares do you have? Just because you're a "founder" doesn't give you any special fiduciary powers; you're just a person with lots of shares to start with.

Finally, some Democrats with balls.

For all the "tea party" rhetoric that comes from Republicans, I've yet to see 1 Republican step up and put his reputation on the line. Where are Rand Paul and Ted Cruz? How do they reconcile the NSA's actions with their so-called beliefs?

I grew up an (Indian) Army brat, and have enough friends in there to say this: never did I hear a single Army officer express any desire to harm Pakistan by itself. The prevailing view was always "I wish these people would get over Kashmir and leave us alone". Take it for what it's worth.

The Pakistani Army controls a huge sector of the Pakistani economy, and benefits disproportionately in the budget. The only way they can maintain so much power is to have a low-level conflict going with India.

Tomorrow, if Pakistan and India signed a peace accord, and froze the borders where they are, the Pakistani Army would be basically useless. They don't want that.

I hear that often.

If HFT is indeed lowering the cost, how come they are making the money and not the retail traders?

This last quarter I may have bought/sold on the order of 10K shares max. If there's a $0.0001 tax per share traded, it would've cost me $1. That's ambient noise level.

How's this for a non-Grand Challenge: make sure your SSL certificates are valid?

95% != 100%.

So there's a nontrivial chance that if I'm connected to someone in LinkedIn whose profile is "private", then if I forward a message from him (containing this LinkedIn flair) to some third party (who is not connected to him), then I could expose his profile details to the third party? That's a privacy lawsuit just waiting to happen.

To paraphrase a famous line: I'm shocked, shocked that there's spying going on!

Snark aside: what may have riled French feathers is the fact that NSA spied on politicians too. I bet they have lots of blackmail stuff.

Single page (print) version: http://www.bicycling.com/print/99136

That page you linked to is a barebones guide to RTL-SDR. Any specific tips on finding and listening to interesting frequencies (or using it as a police scanner)?

But it stifles innovation. A better solution (IMHO, and since I'm not a big follower of F-1 or racing in general, this is basically me talking out of my rear end) would be to, at the end of the year, share the designs and software with each other.

I think the difference is: Gecko has added an accelerometer. Now they can add gestures, which a suitable app can then use to perform actions.

This may be relevant: a history of Congo: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24396390

I disagree. "Hacking" the system by creatively interpreting the laws is what lawyers do! It's their job to hack the legal code to their clients' benefit.

More details here: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/27-year-old-man-gets-20-years-...

State law specifies a mandatory 20-year sentence for a third violation. Yes, locking him up for 20 years at a cost of about $500K is going to solve the problem.

Steam turbines have been around since 1800s. The tech is well understood. Mirrors are also cheap. These two can't be the reason for the high cost.

My guess is that the fancy molten salt stuff drove up the cost. Molten salt is very corrosive.

I would _love_ to see the breakdown of the costs.

Aside: I drove past the plant this summer, and even from the highway it looked awesome.

I've heard of some folks using a Fresnel lens to concentrate light onto a smaller area, where the silicon is. It improves the efficiency significantly, but can also cause heat issues (which can hurt efficiency).

Wait: so before accessing a website I have to go read its terms of use?

What if I set up a website, put a clause saying "you agree to pay $50/page view" in there, and hid it away. Google crawlers will find my site in no time, and then I can start raking the dollars in, right?